Chair Miller and his crew picked up a new B-24 at California’s March Field on Christmas Eve, 1943, and prepared to fly to England．But they decided to have“one more hamburger”before going out for the distant land of fish and chips．
As the airmen sat in a local restaurant, a beautiful young waitress approached．“I understand you’re going to England,”she said to Miller．Then she told him that her fiancé, an aviation gunner like Miller, was stationed there．
The woman said she was waiting for him to provide an address so she could send him a picture of herself．“You might run into him,”she told Miller hopefully．“Would you take it?”
Miller knew it was unlikely he’d ever see her fiancé．But he didn’t want to disappoint the woman．He took the picture and placed it in his wallet．Later he realized he hadn’t even asked the man’s name．Then he was on to Europe and the war．
On August 9,1944, Miller’s plane was shot down, and he was forced to parachute to an island off the coast of Holland．Captured by the Nazis, he spent the next nine months as a prisoner of war．
It was on Christmas Eve that someone told him a 19-year-old American prisoner down the hall was badly depressed and possibly suicidal(有自杀倾向)．Miller decided to pay the man a visit．
To break the ice, he mentioned the POW band he’s started, with the help of the Red Gross．The young man, he learned, played the saxophone．The two began to exchange details about their families．Was he married, the kid asked．“Yeah, since 1938,”responded Miller．
“Have you got her picture?”the soldier asked．So Miller reached for his wallet, and pulled out a photograph of his wife．
“She’s beautiful!”the young man responded．Then he noticed that a second picture had fallen out, and an expression of wonder crossed his face．“Where did you get that?”Miller told the story of the waitress at the California hamburger stand．
“That’s my fiancée,”the surprised man said．Miller kept his promise to the beautiful girl back home and turned the picture over to its rightful owner．
(1)
The reasonable connection between Miller and the young man is that ________．
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A．
they were in love with the same waitress
B．
they played with the same POW band
C．
they were kept prisoner in the same camp
D．
they both served as gunners in a new B-24
(2)
The underlined words“To break the ice”would probably mean“________”．
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A．
to keep warm in icy surroundings
B．
to start a conversation after a silence
C．
to get rid of the ice around the house
D．
to escape from the freezing place
(3)
It can be inferred from the passage that ________．
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A．
Miller did not ask about the young man’s name on purpose
B．
the young man killed himself on account of missing his fiancée
C．
Miller joined in the war against the Nazis and was captured
D．
the young man got the photo of his fiancée by accident
Women might have a higher position at work, but at home their careers tend to give way to their husband’s job, with women most likely to quit when both are working long hours, according to a U．S．study．
Researcher Youngjoo Cha, from Cornell University, found that working women with a husband who worked 50 hours or more a week found themselves still doing most of the housework and the care giving and were more likely to end up quitting their jobs．
An analysis of 8,484 professional workers and 17,648 nonprofessionals from dual-earner(双职工)families showed that if women had a husband who worked 60 hours or more per week it increased the woman’s possibility of quitting her paid job by 42 percent．Cha said the possibility of quitting increased to 51 percent for professional women whose husbands work 60 hours or more per week, and for professional mothers the possibility they would quit their jobs jumped 112 percent．
However, it did not significantly affect a man’s possibility of quitting his job if his wife worked 60 hours or more per week, according to the study published in the American Sociological Review in April．For professional men, both parents and non-parents, the effects of a wife working long hours were negligible, according to the study．
“As long work-hours introduce conflict between work and family into many dual-earner families, couples often solve conflict in ways that prioritize husbands’ careers,”Cha, who used data from the U．S．Census Bureau, said in a statement．“This effect is magnified(突出)among workers in professional and managing occupations, where the criterion of overwork and the culture of looking after children tend to be strongest．The findings suggest that the popularity of overwork may lead many dual-earner couples to return to a traditional family pattern－breadwinning men and homemaking women．”
(1)
According to the text, we know that ________．
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A．
men prefer work long hours
B．
women prefer to work outside
C．
men’s careers are unimportant
D．
women are more likely to quit jobs
(2)
The underlined word“negligible”in Paragraph 4 most probably means ________．
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A．
unimportant
B．
limited
C．
different
D．
obvious
(3)
Which statement is true according to the text?
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A．
When there’s conflict between work and family, a husband will give up his work．
B．
Women may still do most of the housework and care for babies or children．
C．
Professional women are more likely to quit the job than professional mothers．
D．
A man’s chance of quitting jobs was influenced if his wife works long hours．
(4)
We can infer from the last sentence that ________．
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A．
all the workers pay more attention to looking after children
B．
overwork may have no influence on dual-earner couples
C．
traditionally, men usually worked to support the family
D．
most dual-earner couples will return to a traditional family pattern
(5)
In which column of China Daily can you find this passage?
